The word "asleep" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a state of unconsciousness or inactivity. For example, "He had fallen asleep in his armchair, snoring softly".
And then there was Tilda Swinton, who spent 15 hours in a vitrine at London's Serpentine Gallery in 1995, seemingly asleep.
That is, if the silence of trying to fall asleep the old fashioned way proves deafening.
And it was always the same dream: in the dream I'd be asleep, I'd wake up, sit up in my bed, and he'd be sitting there on the edge of my bed, staring at me, with the bullet hole still in his chin, about the size of a nickel.
And so it feels like a wonderful adventure to be up and about, whilst everyone is asleep and missing one of Mother Nature's greatest light shows.
I was later found asleep on the mantelpiece'.
Upstairs in a lecture hall, and dotted around nearby classrooms, fellow students are curled up on the floor asleep.
It looks like the urban planner might have fallen asleep at his drawing board, but these are the proposals for a new skateboarding space under Hungerford bridge on the South Bank in London – the latest chapter in the ongoing saga of the area's redevelopment.
That means Teresa Rivero, the country's only female club president, famous for attacking referees with umbrellas and falling asleep in the directors' box, is gone.
When some of us are asleep, some of us are up, in different time zones, mobilising, strategising, informing each other, and, lobbying our respective governments to give the girls the time of day.
However, let's stop and think for a moment what may happen if additional data such as sleep patterns – which are now available on wearable devices – is shared by measuring not only how many hours you sleep, but how deeply you do so based on your heart rate and movement when asleep.
Labour accused the government of being "asleep on the job" as the plans emerged despite coalition pledges to curb bonuses.
